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Past Silver Spring Event: VOL 6

VOL 6

February 12, 2016

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Pyramid Atlantic

In 1991, the US was experiencing the highest rate of teen pregnancy in history. NBA star and Olympian, Ervin "Magic" Johnson announced he had AIDs, and Queen frontman, Freddy Mercury, passed from the disease. The social conditions in that year led to a hip hop group called Salt-N-Pepa to write a song entitled, "Let's Talk About Sex." As the title suggests, the song encouraged an open discussion about sex in order to spread awareness of the realities and risks related to the topic. Since 1991, both teenage pregnancy rates, as well as AIDs rates have steadily declined.

For PechaKucha Silver Spring: Volume 6, we will be having Salt-N-Pepa performing "Let's Talk About Sex". Just kidding. We're going to be a bit more risque than our previous themes to broaden our community conversation about important aspects of life. While the theme is potentially a bit more controversial, we will be having tasteful, adult presentations on subjects related to sex. Expect discussions about gender identity, animal reproduction, sexual health and many other great topics. That being said, we strongly encourage you to leave the kids at home.

Come to Pyramid Atlantic on Friday, February 12, 2015 from 7-9PM. Spend the first ~20 minutes chatting in the Pyramid Atlantic art gallery with some tunes, art exhibits, light fare and social lubricant, all included in your ticket price. Around 7:20PM, we'll have the first half of presenters. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll be full of awe. Intermission. We'll have the second half of presenters where you'll go through a similar roller coaster of emotion as before. Afterwards, hang out and chat.

PRESENTATIONS FROM THIS EVENT

Paula Brantner loves pandas. She volunteers at the National Zoo in Washington DC and is privy to all of their behavior, including the more intimate ones. Listen as Paula shares the process and challenges to getting pandas to mate.

Debbie Churgai is inspired by sex. Having read several articles on the reasons for sex, Debbie wrote a paper in grad school on the topic. In this presentation, Debbie shares some of the reasons humans have sex.

Mickey Irizarry spends her days educating and discussing sex with college students. Listen as she talks about sexual education in universities and some of the interesting questions she gets from students.

Tom Mirenda is the orchid experte at the Smithsonian. In this presentation, he talks about fascinating techniques for reproduction in orchids. Some use disguise, some use phermomones, some use beauty. Listen in to discover the incredible world of orchids.

Jarrod Jabre is an ordained deacon in the Lutheran church. As an expert on the bible, he knows a lot about parts that are often ommitted in common conversation. Listen as he shares some of the many times that sex is discussed in the bible.